Following last night’s speakers’ dinner at a bistro on Spadina, the main event has arrived! DSrupted 2015 is happening today at 25 York Street, behind Union Station, Toronto. The hashtag for today is #DSrupted.
Toronto is a hub for established, and new, digital signage and related businesses. This year’s impressive sponsor list reflects the huge buzz Toronto generates within marketing, communications and signage sectors. The event organiser is Dave Haynes, Founder/Editor of the acclaimed Sixteen:Nine blog. Dave is a well-known figure in the digital signage and Digital Out Of Home sectors and leads both The Preset Group and pressDOOH.
@DSrupted technology conference on #digitalsignage is kicking off! Stay tuned 4 global insights & 2016 trends @LSquaredDigital #dsrupted
— L Squared (@LSquaredDigital) September 16, 2015
Looking forward to the second #dsrupted conference here in Toronto today…starts at 9.
— Stephen Ghigliotty (@Ghigliotty) September 16, 2015
Nice digital agenda set up for #dsrupted at TELUS Conference Centre by Appspace and TechTap pic.twitter.com/GmuugWFZfq
— 16:9 – All Digital Signage, Some Snark (@sixteennine) September 15, 2015
If you cannot make the event, but will be in downtown Toronto later afternoon, there will be post-event beers at Real Sports, across from the venue and steps from the entrance to the ACC.
The 2015 sponsors:
Rise Vision – The Toronto-based but really virtual software firm makes the widely-used open source content management system that goes by the same name. It’s feature-rich yet free – the company making its money through premium enhancements, and content store and its sister company, integrator Rise Display. This is the second year for sponsorship by Rise.
PATTISON Onestop – PATTISON Onestop is the digital
signage/place-based media division of PATTISON Outdoor, Canada’s largest privately held outdoor media firm. A sponsor for a second time, PATTISON Onestop builds, manages and sell times on a variety of networks – includingt the very prominent one running on Toronto’s subway platforms.
Cineplex Digital Solutions – The third returning sponsor is Cineplex Digital Solutions, which could be described in a number of ways. They develop strategy, build and fund networks, service other networks, develop content, and on and on. They work with some of Canada’s largest companies, including big banks and property developers. The parent company is Canada’s dominant cinema chain.
NEC Display – If you consider options for high-quality commercial screens for projects, you already know all about NEC and its impressive line of displays, projectors and related gear.
Christie – Christie’s roots are in cinema projectors, and that’s still a big part of the company’s business. But these
days Christie provides a truly broad spectrum of options for digital canvases – from fine pixel pitch LED and Microtiles to LCD and projection mapping that can be anything from a tiny object to the Empire State Building. The company, in part through its acquisition of Arsenal Media, is now active both in developing ideas and creating content, and media sales.
The host for DSrupted is TELUS, via its lead guy on digital signage, Dave Carbert. Dave and his team were a huge help last year and again this year – providing a great venue, support staff and logistical assistance.
If you are in Canada, you know TELUS is one of the country’s largest telecommunications providers – and like most of these very large companies is active in digital signage projects. TELUS, for example, is a big part of the ambitious SportChek flagship stores that have opened in the last couple of years.
